Limitations of current fabrication techniques and basic physics will soon put an end to processor performance/price growth as we have known it in the silicon/Moore's Law era. What comes next is still taking...

It's taken longer than expected, but Intel has finally officially released the first CPUs using its Broadwell architecture. The new processors enable the holy grail of mobile computing: full PC power in a completely fanless package.

At Hot Chips, Nvidia revealed some of Denver's surprises and showed the first performance test results for this souped-up version of the Tegra K1 processor designed for smartphones, tablets and Chromebooks.

The good folks at iFixit have partnered up with the reverse-engineering gurus at Chipworks to give us an inside view of Apple's A4 processors as used in the iPad.All images courtesy of iFixit/Chipworks

Excellent question in today's hardware 2.0 mailbag:I want to upgrade my existing PC so it's able to play the latest games. What upgrades do you recommend? By the way, I'm on a budget of about $600 ...Let's take a look!

The biggest story at Computex 2009 this week was netbooks, and in particular netbooks that use alternatives to Intel's Atom and Windows. This Lenovo IdeaPad S10, for example, is running a version of Linux with Intel's new Moblin V2 operating system.

Still looking for a way to squeeze more frames per second out of Crysis Warhead, Call of Duty 5 or Far Cry 2? NVIDIA has the answer in the form of the world's fastest single and dual GPU graphics cards - all you need is the cash!

A new vacuum technique named "Airgap" by IBM promises to make the company's processors faster and possibly more energy efficient. IBM expects the first 320-nanometer microprocessors using this new technology to appear in 2009. Here's an animated video produced by IBM to explain how the new chips will be built.

At the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in San Francisco, Jerry Bautista, Intel's director of technology management, demonstrates how, in the future, Intel will power virtual environments using its multicore chiptechnology.

From Oracle OpenWorld 2006: Michael Dell discusses two new systems available starting today: the four-processor PowerEdge 6950 and the two-processor PowerEdge SC1435. Both use Advanced Micro Devices' Opteron processor, a first for Dell.

At the Aug. 7 event, Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced, "Today, the Power Mac is going to fade into history." Then Philip Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of worldwide product marketing, shows off the new Mac Pro based on Intel's Xeon 5100 processor, code-named Woodcrest.

CNET's Neha Tiwari speaks with Sean Maloney, executive vice president of Intel, about the launch of their new Core 2 Duo Processor. With new technology, Core 2 proves to be a big stride into the future of smart computing.

The Sony VAIO UX is one of the best tiny ultraportable computers we've seen. But its high price, poor battery life, and less-than-ideal typing experience keep it from being a home run. CNET's Michelle Thatcher takes a look.

In 'While You Were Waiting,' Andrew Quinn and Gary McKeown createas many arms, legs and bodies as they need for themselves to createquick, improvisational beats, all in the name of killin' some time.Presented by Pocket Shorts UK and featured in the 2006 San FranciscoInternational Film Festival.

Can Intel derail the AMD juggernaut? Get the inside scoop as Charles Cooper, Michael Kanellos, Tom Krazit and special guest Roger Kay debate the question in this week's edition of the CNET News.com Reporters' Roundtable.

Intel is ramping up its transition to dual-core processors. By the end of2006, approximately 70% of its client and mobile processors and 85% of itsservices processors will ship with dual-core. Shannon Poulin, Intel'senterprise marketing director, explains some of the new platform features thatwill take advantage of the new faster processors, which are powered by65-nanometer technology.